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Jellyfish  n.  (Zool.) Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa and acaleph.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jellyfish" Quotes from Famous Books



... has asserted that this is so, as we have already learned, for it finds that adult animals array themselves at different levels of a scale beginning at the bottom with the protozoa, continuing on to the two-layered animals like Hydra and jellyfish and sea-anemones, and then extending upwards to the region of the more complicated invertebrates and vertebrates. It was difficult perhaps to believe that these successive grades of organic structure ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

... over," he replied. "The doctors here say they never saw such a blooming mess-up of flesh pretending to be alive. And as for talking, they'd just as soon expect speech from a jellyfish squashed by a steam-roller. If I do get through, I'll be a helpless crock all my days. I funked it till I thought of you. I thought the sight of another fellow who has gone through it and stuck it out might give me ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke

... a swim. The water was too cold for comfort, and inadvertently he ran into a school of jellyfish, from which he emerged feeling as if he were on fire all over. He dressed hurriedly, shivering and disgruntled. The novelty of Tarpaulin was wearing off, and he hoped heartily that he would soon be in a more interesting place. A month there ...
— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman



Words linked to "Jellyfish" :   man-of-war, Cnidaria, Coelenterata, phylum Coelenterata, Chrysaora quinquecirrha, Portuguese man-of-war, phylum Cnidaria, cnidarian



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